Farewell Gordon and thanks for the food!

Well the Prime Minister was back in County again last week (No surprise visits to the in-laws! - See previous posts). Whoever would have thought the Government of the day, given all thats going on in the world, could have had such a boring conference. Apart from a couple of security "scares", including two males who were invited back to the station after causing concern to officers (turns out they were "mentally undressing the officers", in their words), absolutely zilch happened. The biggest march was only 1,500 (ironically on the Sunday, before the main conference started), out of the remaining organised marches, the biggest, estimated at approx 200, could only muster 21 .. literally more officers than protestors, as the national press picked up on. At least we had the protests in Burma to keep us entertained on Sky News ... bet they wouldn't have taken the Shaolin Monks on! (Going to see them in November with Noel if he's bought the tickets http://www.wheeloflife.co.uk/ ). Bring back the 16,000 plus that showed up for the Countryside Alliance march in '99 (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/459328.stm ) or the samller but more entertaining "Kill the Bill" march of a few years previous! All the same, it was nice to get up on the Monday morning to hear the rain pelting aginst the window and think, "thank goodness I'm not stood out on a point this year", been there, done that! The great thing about conference is that its the only time that officers and staff actually get fed for free whilst at work. As we were trialling the new Special Events Conrol room at HQ (Government funded for the 2012 Olympic Sailing ... lets hope it still works), we headed up to the Countryman pub for breakfast each day, and the night turn went there for evening meals ... anything off the menu apparently, kerching! So thank you Gordon for centrally funding breakfast for a week!
Upon return, Tamisa has headed off to work to catch up on her shifts (Weymouth last night, Swanage for tonight and tomorrow). By some strange coincidence, Rebecca decided to vomit once or twice during the night ... how I was wishing she had a number one crew cut last night ... so much easier for getting it out of the hair at 0130 in the morning. So far so good tonight!
Other than conference not a vast amount has changed. I finally got the kitchen tiles and the B and Q order for kitchen doors and end panels arrived ... well everything except the doors, 15 of them. Spike has been contacted and will be working his magic in the next few weeks ... that will be the last room finished, must be time to sell!
Mum and Dad popped down for a visit a few weeks ago and chose a decent week for weather, other than that very little has changed, chucks are still laying, but the tortoises appear to be slowing for the winter already ... can't blame them.
Must catch up on some kip so no photos this time!

Thanks for reading ...catch up soon